Education World – Kassondra Granata
“According to new research, exercise guidelines for students should focus on quality and quantity…”an hour of aerobic exercise may promote aerobic fitness and muscle strength, but not necessarily motor skill development, socialization or having fun”…The preadolescent period, the article said, “is the time when developing brains can best learn and reinforce motor skill control, which will make physical fitness more sustainable later in life”…According to Dr. Urs Eiholzer, head of the PEZZ Center for Pediatric Endocrinology Zurich in Switzerland said that regular physical activity is “crucial for children…it benefits perception, language, emotional skills, social behavior, in short intellectual development…””(more)